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CHAPTER XXVI
EAST CHICAGO (INDIANA HARBOR)
FOUNDING OF EAST CHICAGO-GEN. JOSEPH F. TORRENCE AND HIS WORK-THE EAST CHICAGO COMPANY-MR. AND MRS. GEORGE W. LEWIS-THE CORPORATION-THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES-THE COMMER- CIAL CLUB-PUBLIC SCHOOLS-STATISTICS-EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM-EAST CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL-THE METHODIST CHURCH- ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH-ST. STANISLAUS PARISH-OTHER EAST CHICAGO CHURCHES-THE METHODISTS AT INDIANA HARBOR -- THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH-THE I. O. O. F .- KNIGHTS OF THE MAC- CABEES-MASONIC BODIES-KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AND PYTHIAN SISTERS-THE D. A. R .- MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA-LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE-OTHER FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS .417
CHAPTER XXVII CITY OF WHITING
AS A TOWN-CITY IMPROVEMENTS-WHITING'S PUBLIC PARK-MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS-THE PUBLIC LIBRARY-THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM -SACRED HEART CATHOLIC PARISH-METHODISM AT WHITING-ST. JOHN BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH-ST. ADALBERT'S PARISH-THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH-SECRET AND BENEVOLENT BODIES 439
CHAPTER XXVIII CROWN POINT
GENERAL ADVANTAGES AND SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS-TOWN CORPORATION -PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND UTILITIES-HEALTHFUL LOCATION- TELEPHONE SERVICE-BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION AND CARNEGIE LIBRARY-PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CROWN POINT-CHURCHES-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC PARISH-EVANGEL- ICAL LUTHERAN TRINITY-OTHER CHURCHES-LODGES .448
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CHAPTER XXIX
TOWN OF HOBART
INCORPORATED AS A TOWN-INDUSTRIES OF THE PLACE-LIGHT AND WATER SUPPLY-HOBART TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM- CHURCHES OF HOBART-ST. BRIDGET'S PARISH-SWEDISH EVANGELICAL LUTHERANS-THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH-THE LODGES. .458
CHAPTER XXX
TOWN OF LOWELL
REPRESENTS SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-FOUNDING OF THE TOWN- PIONEER LOCAL INSTITUTIONS-LARGEST BUILDINGS IN THE COUNTY- STRONGEST TEMPERANCE TOWN-EFFECTS OF 1898 FIRE-BETTER FIRE PROTECTION AND WATER SERVICE-THE LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL- OAKLAND PARK-CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES. 466
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Abandoned District Schools Nos. 4 and 9 (views), 208 About to Break Ground at Gary (view), 387
Acker, Walter, 845
Adams, James, 35
Agitation for better courthouse, 106
Agnew, David, 78
Agnew, Nancy, 93
Agricultural education, 221 Ahlborn, William, 858
Ainsworth, 184 Albright, John W., 644 All Saints' Catholic Church, 371 Allaben, Max F., 563
Allen, J. G., 733 Allman, Amos, 587 Allman, Claude W., 578
Allman, Walter L., 588
Allman-Gary Title Company, 637 Along the Grand Calumet River (view), 300 Alschuler, H., 689 Aluminum factory, 306 Ambridge, 322
American Bridge Company, 322, 622
American Conduit Company, 310
American Maize Company, 302
American Potato Machinery Company, 520
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, 319, 864
American Steel Foundries, 305, 801
American Trust and Savings Bank of Hammond, 551 Ames, Edward P., 137 Ames, Nannie W., 137 Ames, Samuel, 137
An Improved Country Road (view), 276 An Independent Plant (view), 323 Antiquities, 24 Antiquities, relics and curiosities, 82 Arnott, Thomas, 498 At the Gary Iron Ore Docks (view), 318 Attempts to remove county seat, 110 Aubry, Edward A., 551 "Aunt Susan" Turner, 69, 97 Austgen, Peter, 554
Babbitt, W. S., 258 Bader, G. J., 733
Bailey, Charles T., 683
Bailey, James B., 639
Bailey, Levi E., 597
Bailey, Louis J., 780
Baldwin Locomotive Works, 284
Ball Boarding School, 205
Ball, Charles, 256
Ball, Hervey, 48, 227
Ball, Jane A., teacher and doctor, 92
Ball, Jane A. H., 205
Ball, T. H., 73, 82
Ball's description of the Calumet re- gion, 2 Baltimore & Ohio R. R., 267
Bank of Whiting, 331, 612
Banks and bankers, 325
Banks, N. P., 491
Baptist churches for colored people, 410 Baptist pioneers, 49 Baptists, 365, 410
Barker, Harry B., 807
Barnes, Lewis E., 697
Barnett, Fred, 517
Barney, C. M., 794
Bauer, Carl E., 525
Beach, Spencer L., 579
Beautiful Lake Prairie, 134 Becker, John C., 692
Beeker, Lawrence, 235, 628
Beekman, John F., 545
Beckman, John N., 544
Beckman, J. William, 524
Behnke, Ed, 771 Behnke, George B., 771
Bell, Samuel A., 845 Bell, T. Edwin, 570 Belman, William C., 494
Belshaw, George, 197
Belshaw, J. Will, 600
Belshaw station, 197
Belt lines, 277
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 377, 415 Bennett, H. W., 711 Bennett, Royal W., 711 Berg, George, 661
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Berg, Peter A., 605 Berry Lake, 34 Betz, F. S., 302 Betz Manufactory, 302 Bick, Peter H., 544 Bieker, Henry, 535 Bieker, William, 515 Birds, 6
Black, Walter G., 729
Blank, A. M., 717
Blockie, George G., 534
Boardman, Carl, 748
Boggess, Walter T., 830
Bonded indebtedness, 120
Boone, David E., 833
Bormann, Frank, 769
Bormann, Otto C., 768
Bortz, Harry, 794
Bowen, Charles E., 696
Bowers, John O., 549
Brand, Henry, 737 Brandenburg. Elmer D., 559
Brennan, John A., 621
Brink, C. C., 710
Broadway in the Rough (view), 387 Brown, Alexander F., 54
Brown ditch, 156
Brown, John, 156, 325, 589
Browns of Eagle Creek, 54
Bruce, Milo M., 559
Bruce, Otto J., 586
Bruhn, Daniel, 856
Brunswick, 166
Bryan, Asahel, 475
Bryan, Louis A., 475
Bryant settlement, 41
Budnik, Peter, 694
Buettner, Philipp, 524
Bullock, Asa C., 802
Bullock Brothers, 802
Bullock, Gilbert D., 802
Bunnell, Eben N., 508
Burke, James E., 788
Burke, John B., 793
Burning of slaughter house, 297
Burton, Charles P., 772
Business Men's Association, 450 Butler, William, 37
Cabin, The, and its furniture, 62 "Call," The, 250 Call, Harry, 709 Call, John W., 495 Callahan, Frank, 688
Calumet industrial region, 71
Calumet Laundry, 695 Calumet muskrats and ducks, 28 Calumet region, 2. 28
Calumet region industries, 285
Calumet Township, created, 105; popu- lation, 114; valuation, 122; area, 128; early industry, 128; towns, 129; pi- oneers, 133
"Calumet," The, 253
Calvert, Ernest R., 805 Calvert-Downer Hardware Co., 805 Campbell, Alexander J., 598
Campbell. Cyrus W., 541
Canine, Edwin N., 648 Care of the county poor, 108 Carlson, Alfred, 815
Carnegie Library, Whiting, 441
Carnegie Library, Crown Point, 450
Carr, Homer J., 850
Castle, J. M., 607
- Catholics, 55, 63, 167, 368, 371, 372, 406, 444 Cedar Creek, 135
Cedar Creek pioneers, 136
Cedar Creek Township, created, 104; pop- ulation, 115; valuation, 126; area, 134; formed, 134; pioneers, 134; first settlers, 138; towns, 140; oldest set- tler, 142
Cedar Lake Baptist Church, 51 Cedar Lake's early fame, 145 Census of cities, 116
Center Township, created, 101; popula- tion, 115; valuation, 125; area, 144; physical features, 144; first settle- ments, 145; eastern settlement, 149; education and religion, 149; towns, 149; transportation. 153
Central Investment and Realty Com- pany, 649
Champion Potato Machinery Company of Hammond, 302, 510 Champion Rivet Company, 631
Chapman, John B., 46
Chase. Charles W., 774
Cheshire and Youche antiquities, 24
Cheshire, Hall, 212 Cheshire, William W., 211
Chester, Charles E., 784
Chicago & Calumet Terminal, 418
Chicago Avenue east of Forsyth Avenue (view), 425
Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Rail . way, 282
Chidlaw, Benjamin W., 565
Childers, Mrs. Thomas, 90 Christ Episcopal Church, Gary, 409 Christian Church, 367, 433, 446, 464 Christian church workers, 94
Christians, 367 Christy, Joseph, 812 Church of St. John the Evangelist, 187 Church, Richard, 52
Cities in the Calumet region, 116
Citizens German National Bank, 330, 568 Citizens Trust & Savings Bank of Indi- ana Harbor, 333, 666 City of Gary, 314 City Hall, Gary, 395 Civil War record, 255 Clark, George W., 71
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Clark, J. S., 699 Clark, James T., 824 Clark, William, 227 Clark, Mrs. William, 90 Clarke, George W., 304 Clarke station, 131 Claussen, John H., 479
Clements, James, 655 Cleveland, Timothy, 231
Clinton, F. W., 646
Cogshall, B. L., 809
Coming industries, 310 Commencement of the resort business, 151
Commercial Bank, 330
Commercial Bank of Crown Point, 335 Commercial Club, 422
Condensed account of the semi-centen- nial, 66
Condit & McGinnity, 645
Condit, G. P., 645 Congregational Church, 432
Congregationalists, 364
Congressional and legislative districts, 239
Conkey, W. B., plant, 298 Conkey, Walter B., 553
Consolidated schools. 222
Co-operative Construction Company, 857 Courthouse, temporary, 102; frame, 106;
agitation for better, 106; of 1880, 107; remodeled and enlarged, 108
Country around the southern bend of Lake Michigan (map), 286
County buildings, 106
County Courthouse, Crown Point (view), 107
County divided into three townships, 101 County elections, 72 County officers, 100 County organization, 43, 100
County poor, care of, 108
County schools, 218
County seat, 76; fight, 103; attempts to remove, 110
Craig, Alexander P., 806 Craig, W. L., 634 Cravens, Lincoln V., 563 Crawford, H. D., 686 Creeks, 2 Creston, 141 Cronin, Charles C., 847 Crooks, William B., 36 Crops which crowded out the fur trade, 29
Crowell, Eugene H., 599
Crown Point, first settler at, 36; first colony at, 74; named, 76; wins county seat fight, 103; earliest newspaper center, 245; general advantages and special attractions, 448; town corpora- tion, 449; public improvements and utilities, 449; healthful location, 450;
telephone service, 450; public schools, 450; churches, 456; lodges, 457 Crown Point Methodist Church, 52 "Crown Point Register," 246 Crumpacker, Peter, 237 Cudahy products, 308
Curtis, Harvey J., 748
Cutler, Abbie, 261 Cutler, Leonard, 52
Dalby, H. A., 853 Dalrymple, Otto W., 853
Daughters of the American Revolution, 415, 436 Daughters of Liberty, 379
Davis Brothers, 289
Davis, Frank H., 741
Davis, George F., 190
Davis, George W., 617
Davis, Hoy D., 757
Deathe, George M., 662
Dearbeyne, Arden, 820
Deaver, Arthur G., 838
Decade of "hard times," 112
Deep River, 44
DeLong, Charles A., 753
Dencer, Frederick W., 814
Dewey, J. S., 706
Dickey, George W., 776
Dille, George W., 147
Dilschneider, Peter J., 550
Dinwiddie, John W., 160
Dinwiddie, Margaret, 94
Dinwiddie, Mrs. M. J., 84
Disappearance of the old Robinson house, 38 Disciples of Christ, 407, 446, 464
Discovery of Robinson's prairie, 73
Doak, George S., 816
Doescher, Herman, 164
Donovan, Charles B., 656
Dougan, Walter, 767
Downer, Roswell W., 846
Downey, Henry P., 497
Doyne, James J., 861
Drackert, George, 562
Drainage and ditches, 11
Dubbs, E. E., 668
Duelke, Otto H., 485
Dunn, William M., 729
Dunsing, Joseph W., 649
Dupes, Daniel W., 670
Duroc hogs (view), 191
Dyer, 189
Dyer Consolidated School, St. John Township (view), 186
Eadus, C. T., 804
Eagle Creek Township, created, 104; population, 115; valuation, 126; area, 156; groves, 156; first settlers, 157; present form, 157; schoolhouses, 159; pioneers, 160
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Earle, George, 45
Early figures for North and Hobart townships, 72 Early history, 16
Early physicians of Crown Point, 243
Early road building, 270
Early stage routes, 32
East Cedar Lake teachers, 207
East Chicago, population, 115; area, 177; beginning of, 271; founding of, 304. 418; docks, 308; public libraries, 421; public schools, 422; high school, 429; churches, 430; lodges, 434
East Chicago Bank, 331, 766
East Chicago Company, 419, 665
East Chicago Garage and Sales Com- pany, 636.
"East Chicago Globe," 250
East Side Trust and Savings Bank of Hammond, 543
Ebright, John D., 835
Eckstorm, Harold, 637
Eder, Edward J., 596
Eder, George J., 520
Eder, George M., 568
Edgerton, Horace, 135
Effect of the railroad on primitive life, 264
Eibel, Fred, 755
Electric lines, 275
Electric power plants, 310
Elks Temple, 415
Elliott, A. T., 663
Emerson, 399
Emerson School Building (view), 398
Emmerling, Nicholas, 585
Employes Real Estate and Investment Company, 773
Endress, John C., 574
Enterprise Bed Company, 304
Episcopalians, 366, 409
Erickson. Herbert, 751
Erie R. R., 268
Espey, Hugh S., 753
Escher, Albert E., 565
Evangelicals, 166
Evangelical Immanuel Church, 370
Evangelical Lutherans, Swedish, 464
Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church, 457 Expansion of electric railways, 281 Extent of the fur trade, 26
Fair grounds. 154 Fair grounds near Crown Point (view), 152
Famous long pole bridge, 32
Fancher, Richard, 154
Fancher, Thaddeus S., 231, 608
Farovid, J. R .. 666 Farquharson, William L., 712
Farr. Edwin H., 621 Farrington, W. C., 242
Father of the Superior courthouse, 236 Fathers of Lake County journalism, 246 Faulkner, Clara, 721 Fetterhoff. John H., 609 Fetterer. F. T., 869
Feuer, William S., 860
Field, Elisha C., 237, 759
Fifield, O. G., 777
Finances of Lake County, 116
Financial status of different roads, 120 Finneran, Martin H., 833
Fire department headquarters, Indiana Harbor (view), 418
First Baptist Church, Gary, 410
First Baptist Church, Hammond, 365
First Baptist society formed, 50 First Calumet Trust and Savings Bank, 332, 736
First Christian Church, Gary, 407 First colony at Crown Point, 74
First commissioners' meeting, 101
First Congregational Church, Hammond, 364
First county elections, 72
First election of county officers, 100
First electric line, 275
First Free Soil meeting, 64
First literary societies, 206
First meeting of old settlers, 79
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Gary, 407
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Ham- mond. 362
First Methodist mission, 51
First National Bank of Crown Point, 327
First National Bank of East Chicago, 332. 657
First National Bank of Gary, 333, 822
First National Bank of Hammond, 328, 486
First National Bank of Whiting, 331, 660
First normal school, 213 First of the Calumet industrial re- gion, 71
First practicing lawyer, 229
First Presbyterian Church, Crown Point, 456
First Presbyterian Church, Gary, 410
First Presbyterian Church, Hammond, 368
First railroads in Lake County, 265 First Reformed Church, Gary, 411 First resident farmer, 34
First school in the county, 203
First shipment of refrigerator beef, 292 First State Bank of Tolleston, 333, 770 First teacher, 90, 203
First Teachers' Institute, 210
First traveler, 30
Fitzgerald, Leonard, 752
Fitz Hugh, Luther, Company, 301
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Folk dances. Emerson School, Gary (view), 401 Forsythe. Jacob, 304
Foster, George L., 605
Foster, John M., 257
Founder of the drainage system, 231
Founder of Lowell. 136
Founder of Wiggins Point, 40
Fowler, Charles E., 705
Fowler, Mrs. Luman A., 91
Fox, Francis H., 541
Frame courthouse. 106 Francis, H. C., 775 Frank F. Heighway, County Superintend- ent of Schools (portrait ), 217
Frank, F. F .. 738 Frank, Sol. 861
Franklin School. Griffith (view), 204
Fraternities. 373. 415, 437
Fraternal Order of Eagles, 379, 437
Frederick, George W., 595
Freer, Arthur T., 823
French traders, 20 Friedrich, Charles H., 528
Friends Evangelical Church, 372
Froebel School. 399
Froebel School Building (view), 402
Frost, Joseph, 626
Fry, Alfred, 258 Fuller, Richard, 141 Fulton, William J., 778
Funkey. William J., Jr., 657 Fur trade, 26
Gallagher, William S., 848 Gapczynski. Ignatius, 704 Gardner, William H., 832
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Gary and Its Home Districts, 855 Gary, remarkable growth of, 116; old part of, 129; wonderful rise of, 129; fertile in newspapers, 252; young, but finished, 314; first breaking of ground, 383; first corporate election, 384; town government organized, 384; be- comes a city, 385: increase of corpo- rate territory, 385; light, water and power plants. 388; money expended on, 388: first streets, 390; area and topography, 391: street mileage and improvements, 391; engineering de- partment, 393; city hall, 395; public library, 395: publie school system. 396; school system described, 399; commercial bodies, 405; hospitals, 405: Slav element. 405; churches, 406; churches for foreign born, 413; Y. M. C. A., 413; fraternities, 415
Gary & Interurban Railway, 281
Gary Bolt and Screw Works, 324 Gary Bond and Mortgage Company, 792
Gary-Carnegie Public Library, Fifth Av- enne (view), 394 Gary City Hall and Municipal Headquar- ters, Seventh Avenue and Massachu- setts Street (view), 392
Gary Commercial Club, 317. 787 Gary Construction Company, 804
Gary Evening Post, The, 252. 684
Gary Heat, Light and Water Company, 751 Gary Land Company, 383, 386, 542 Gary Public Library, The, 780
Gary Public School System, The, 480 Gary State Bank, 333, 638
Gary Supply Company, 686
Gary Theater Building, Broadway and Fifth Avenue (view), 414 "Gary Times," 252
"Gary Tribune," 252, 850
Gary Trust and Savings Bank, 334
Gary Union Railroad Depot (view), 278
Gary W. C. T. U., 414
Gary Y. M. C. A., 413
Gary's Y. M. C. A. Building (view), 412
Gastel, Fred, Jr., 667
Gavit, Frank N., 239, 610
Gavit, John A., 576
General View at Ambridge, Gary's Work- ingmen's Suburb (view), 320
Gerlach Brothers, 810
Gerlach, George M., 811
Gerlach, Joseph M., 811
German Catholics, 55
German colonists, 162
German Lutherans. 55
Gerrish, Abiel, 137
Gershman. H., 754
Gibbs, James C., 629
Gibson, 174 Gillespie, C. M., 656
Gillett. John H., 234
Gillis, Robert R., 860
Gilson, Edmond A., 502
Glazebrook, Bradford D. L., 836
Glen Park district, 855 Glen Park Lumber Company, 855
Glen Park School, Calumet Township (view), 204 Gleason, William P., 532
Godwin, L. P., 627 Golden Brothers. 521
Golden, Emory C., 522
Golden, Levi E., 521
Goldschmidt Detinning Company, 307, 678
Gordon, Edward R., 243
Gordon, P. P., 243
Gostlin, William H., Sr., 499 Gostlin, William H., Jr., 501 Gottlieb, Louis I., 790
Graham, Joseph A., 523
Grand Calumet River, 2, 28 Grand railway crossing, 130
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Grand Trunk R. R., 268 Granger, Fred, 525
Granger, Herman E., 534 Granger, Leon J., 826 Grantham, Joseph P., 798 Grasselli Chemical Works, 307
Gravel roads, 275 Graver Tank Works, 310, 634 Graver, J. P., 635 Graver, William, 634 Graytown, 151
Great railroad period, 112 Great railroad strike, 272
Green Engineering Company, 306, 706 Green, Roy E., 617
Greene, Joseph, 241
Greenlee, Cassius M., 627
Greenwald, Charles E., 235
Gregory, A. G., 686
Griffin, Charles F., 232 Griffin, Elihn, 231
Griffith, 130 Griswold, Eugene A., 594
Gross, John A., 865 Groves, 6 Groves. H. K., 766
Grnel, Jolın, 760 Guipe, Harry W., 763
Hack, John, 55, 185 Hale, Raleigh P., 659
Halstead, M. A., 136
Halsted, A. E., 775 Hamilton, Thomas G., 857
Hammond and Hessville, 174
Hammond, judicial headquarters, 105, 109; population, 115; doubles popula- tion, 272; beginning of, 291; founded, 293; municipal incorporation, 336; growth by wards, 338; mayors, 338; city officials, 338; city hall, 340; mu- nicipal government, 340; receipts and expenditures for 1913, 341; future ter- ritory, 342; bonded indebtedness and appropriations. 342; tax levy, 342; city parks, 343; railroads, 343; sew- ers, pavements and sidewalks, 343; new buildings, 344; water system, 344; fire department, 345; police de- partment, 346; parks and the public health, 346; public library, 347; first public library, 348; public schools and educators, 349; churches and societies, 360; fraternities, 373; clubs, 380 Hammond's Chamber of Commerce, 356 Hammond Country Club, 380
Hammond Distillery, 303
Hammond Dramatic Club, 380
Hammond Elevator, 303 Hammond, Frank, 550
Hammond, George H., 289
Hammond, Helen P., 557 Hammond, H. D., 801
Hammond Machine and Forge Works, 856
Hammond's Masonic history, 373
Hammond Pattern and Model Works, 503
Hammond Savings and Trust Company, The, 550
Hammond Settlement House, 381
Hammond Telephone Exchange, The, 530 Hammond, Thomas, 296, 297, 554
Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Line, 282
Hammond Woman's Club, 380
Handley, William L., 583
Hanover Center, 166
Hanover Township, population, 115; valuation, 122; area, 162; first set- tlers, 162; towns, 166; churches, 166
Harries, H. H., 870
Harris, J. Glenn, 638
Hart, A. N., 189
Hartsdale, 192
Hathaway, Henry, 811
Hathaway, Peter, 195
Hay, Henry G., Jr., 638
Hayden, Cyrus, 574
Hayden. Grant, 815
Hayden, Nehemiah, 195
Hayes, Benjamin F., 814
Hayman, Paul, 805
Hazelgreen, A. M., 739
Heck, C. F., 725
Heighway, Frank F., 218, 821
Heintz, Pontus, 789
Helgen, George D., 535
Hepp, J. G., 772
Herlitz, Lewis, 55, 77, 163
Hershman, George E., 591
Herskovitz, Samuel, 650
Hervey Ball Place, 77
Hess, A. S., 785
Hess, Joseph, 174 Hessville, 174
Hessville Consolidated School, North Township (view), 176
Higgins, John, 243
Higgins, John W., 689
Highland, 177
Highlands, H. H., 803
Hill, William A., 557 Hirons, A. N., 861
Hirsch, Max, 782
Historic relic, 23
Historic relics of Lake County pioneers, 66 Historic "short-cut," 13
Historical synopsis, 42 History of public education in Ham- mond, 353 Hixon, Ernest H., 592
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Hobart, in the rough, 170; physicians, 244; railroads, 266; incorporated, 458; industries, 459; light and water sup- ply, 459; public school system, 460; churches, 463; lodges, 465
Hobart Township, created, 105; popula- tion, 115; valuation, 127; formed, 168; area, 168; railroads, 168; pi- oneers, 169; towns, 170
Hobart Township Consolidated High School (view), 169
Hoerstman, H. A., 629
Hoevet, George J., 633 Hoff, William, 743
Hoffman, Clarence I., 825
Hohman boarding house, 291
Hohman, Caroline, 512
Hohman, Charles G., 288, 513
Hohman, Ernst W., 287, 511
Hohman Street, Hammond, in 1882 and Today (views), 295
Hohman Street, North from Sibley, Ham- mond (view), 340
Holliday, Winfred W., 660
Holmes, Carl O., 800
Holton, Harriet W., 89, 203
Holton, Janna S., 246
Holtz, Herman, 571
Holy Angels Catholic Church of Gary, 406, 770
Holy Trinity Croatian Church of Gary, 840 Home builders displace white trappers, 30
Home Lumber Company, 545
Honored dead, 255 Honorof, Peter, 830 Horn, J. C., 757
Hornors, The, 133
Hornor, Amos, 133
Hornor, David, 133
Hoskins, George H., 615 Hospitals, 245 Howarth, William, 503
Howat, William F., 245, 872
Houk, William F., 597 Hubbard Steel Foundries, 309
Hubbard Steel Foundry Company, 708 Huettner, C. A., 712 Hulst, George P., 794 Hunt, Frank L., 602 Hunter, Clyde, 863 Hunter, George M., 623
Hunter, W. D., 788
Hutton, Joseph T., 572 Hyde, Mrs. M. J., 86
Iddings, H. D., 244 Iddings, J. W., 601 Illinois Car and Equipment Company, 301 Illinois, Indiana & Iowa R. R., 268
Immortal "Thanatopsis," 69
Improving the teaching force, 224 Independent Order of Foresters, 376 Indians, 16
Indian burial and dancing grounds, 19
Indian cemetery, 41
Indian trails, 14
Indiana City, 44
Indiana corn field (view), 112
Indiana and Illinois Land Company, 624 Indiana Harbor, 177
Indiana Harbor churches, 433
Indiana Harbor industries, 305
Indiana Harbor Library, 422
Indiana Harbor Lumber and Coal Com- pany, 668
Indiana Harbor National Bank, 332, 732
Indiana Steel Company, 532
Indoor improvement of county schools, 219
Industrial summary, 324
Industries, 285
Inland Steel Company, 304 Innkeepers, 34
Interior pioneer cabin (view), 89
International Lead Refining Company of Indiana, 793
International Trust and Savings Bank of Gary, 644
Interstate Iron and Steel Plant, 308
Jackson, Joseph, 54, 194 Jacobson, E. R., 502 Jahnke, William C., 721 Jail becomes a temperance hall, 103
James, J. Q., 813
Jansen, Thomas F., 770
Jerome, Frank, 673 Jews, 371, 411
Jewish congregations and societies, 371
Jewish temples, 411
John B. Chapman, titles, 46
Johns, Charles, 786
Johnson, August H. W., 576
Johnson, Harry M., 795
Johnson, Ove A., 726 Johnson, Roswell O., 545
Jones, Alfred, 785
Jones, H. E., 771
Judges, 233 Judicial and official accommodations at Hammond, 109
Kankakee region, 9 Kankakee trapping region, 27
Kankakee Valley, 12
Keilman, H. E., 728 Keilmann, Francis P., 188
Kimmel. Charles P., 819
Klass, H., 165
Klassville, 165 Klose, Charles R., 664 Klose, Robert, 664
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Klotz, Theodore C .. 546 Knickerbocker, James, 147 Knickerbocker. John T., 147 Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees, 377
Knights of Columbus, 379
Knights of Pythias, 377, 435
Knights of the Maccabees, 434
Knoerzer, Leonard, 509
Knoerzer, Otto, 510
Knotts, A. F., 238
Knotts. Thomas E., 130, 385, 537
Kolb, William E. J., 548
Kopelke, Johannes, 233, 782
Kostbade, William, 720
Kramer, Jake, Jr., 713
Krinbill, O. A., 531
Krost, Edward A., 490
Krost, John F., 538
Krueger, Bernhardt H., 825
Kunert, William C., 841
Kuss, C. R., 715 Kuss, Louis P., 713
Lake County Bar Association, 239 Lake County's first teacher, 90
Lake County gymnasium, 214
Lake County Medical Society, 244
Lake County soldiers, 256
Lake County Savings and Trust Com- pany, 330, 516 "Lake County Herald," 246 "Lake County Star," 248 Lake Courthouse, 76
Lake Courthouse postoffice, 43
Lake shore routes and travelers, 30
Lake Michigan Land Company, 419
Lake Prairie, 8, 134, 137
Lake Station. 170 Lanman. E. B., 678 Lanman. E. B., Company, 678
Large land owners, 113
La Salle and his braves, 14
La Salle in the Lake Region (view), 15 Lauer, A. J .. 615
Lauer, George, 676
Laws affecting Lake County schools, 210 Lawyers, 227
Leading women of foreign birth, 95 Lennertz, William, 790
Leroy, 200 Leroy School (view), 200 Lew Wallace School, Center Township (view), 148 Lewis, David J., 669 Lewis, George W., 419
Lewis, J. P .. 636 Lieberman, M. D., 868
Lilley, Calvin, 146 Lilley Hotel, 146
Limbert Works, 309
Lincoln Consolidated School (view), 164 Lindmueller, Charles, 678
Lipinski, Paul B., 536 Little Calumet River, 2 Little, Joseph A., 136 Little, Lewis G., 85 Little Red Schoolhouse (view), 223 Little, Thomas, 136
Liverpool, 170 Liverpool founded, 44 Local phases of great railroad strike, 272 Lonesome pioneer sister, 68
Long, J. H., 647 Looking Down Broadway (view), 408 Looking North on Hohman Street, Ham- mond (view), 337 Loyal Order of Moose, 379, 437 Lottaville, 184
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